Health

Chennai, April 15 : Tamil Nadu Health Secretary J. Radhakrishnan on Thursday said a sufficient number of beds and stock of drugs to treat Covid-19 were there and also urged the people not to panic on increasing coronavirus infections.Speaking to the …

Hyderabad, April 15 : For the second consecutive day, Covid-19 claimed eight lives across Telangana while the daily count of new cases jumped to 3,307, the highest so far in the state.The previous highest one-day spike was on April 11, when 3,187 cas…

Lucknow, April 15 : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has postponed the state Board examinations for Classes 10 and 12.All Classes from 1 to 12 will also remain closed till May 15.The government spokesman said that fresh dates for the exam…

Kolkata, April 15 : Murshidabad’s Congress candidate Rezaul Haque died of Covid-19 at a private hospital here on Thursday morning.Haque was contesting in this Assembly election from Samsergunj in Murshidabad district where election is supposed to tak…

Hyderabad, April 15 : Amid surge in Covid-19 cases in Telangana, Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar on Thursday directed officials to increase the bed strength in government and private hospitals.Kumar chaired a high-level meeting with senior officials her…

New Delhi, April 15 : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday announced a weekend curfew in the national capital to break the chain of Covid-19 pandemic, which has shown an uptrend for the past few days.Considering exponential surge in Covid…

New Delhi, April 15 : India reported 2,00,739 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the biggest single-day spike ever, taking the overall tally to 1,40,74,564, cases on Thursday, according to the Health Ministry data.India’s daily deaths due to Co…

Chennai, April 15 : The Chennai corporation will set up triage centres in 12 more areas, the office of the Commissioner, Greater Chennai Corporation said.Triage centres are being set up to screen Covid-19 patients and to ascertain the next course of …

New Delhi, April 15 : Ahead of the meeting Thursday between Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and LG Anil Baijal, 59 per cent Delhi residents are in favour of a 3-week lockdown. As per a Local Circles survey, 16 per cent residents of Delhi were in…

New Delhi, April 15 : Amid reports of shortage of medical oxygen from various parts of the country, the Centre has clarified that the present availability of “oxygen is sufficient”, however, it has started mapping of states with greater need of oxyge…